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Mind & Method

The morning protocol industrial complex

What the evidence actually supports, and why the format keeps spreading

A genre has emerged in which a successful person describes their twelve-step morning routine and the audience is invited to copy it. The interesting question is not whether the protocols work — some do, some don't — but why the format itself has become the thing.

#habits #circadian #caffeine #light #mental-models #contested #stress

By Mick

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Energy & Recovery

Sleep is upstream of almost everything

What the evidence supports, what it doesn't, and where the popular discourse has run ahead of the science

The case for treating sleep as a foundational lever is one of the strongest signals in physiology. The case for tracking your REM percentages on a wrist device is considerably weaker. The distinction matters.

#sleep #recovery #circadian #flow #neuroscience #hrv #caffeine #light

By Mick

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Energy & Recovery

The blue light glasses question, examined

Lab findings, RCT results, and where the popular advice goes wrong

The blue light glasses market is large and growing. The premise — that filtering short-wavelength evening light prevents melatonin suppression and protects sleep — is half-supported by the laboratory research and contradicted by the real-world trials. The science is real. The product is mostly not what the science is about.

#sleep #circadian #light #contested #evidence #chronotype

By Mick

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Energy & Recovery

Chronotype and the personal sleep schedule

Why the eight-hour mandate misses what the research actually says

The eight-hour sleep rule, taken as a universal prescription, papers over a finding that is more useful to know: people are biologically different in their sleep timing. The chronotype literature has been documenting this for four decades.

#sleep #circadian #evidence #light #chronotype

By Mick

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